Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crisply-written survey of all that fast-food restaurants have to offer. Fortunately, its co-authors are both experts in nutrition and not a pair of glazed-eyed granola freaks. They recognize that fast-food places can't be avoided. Their book is an attempt to educate the general reader on what's good and what's bad in the fast-food world and how to tell the difference. But as they amply document, most of the gristle served in fast-food joints isn't just bad--it's also...
...Gilchrist is trying to sound a warning against interracial marriages. In "First Manhattans" when it is apparent that Annalisa Livingston and Kenny, her Black chauffeur are going to sleep together, Gilchrist has Kenny think, "these white women go crazy if you make them come." At this point the reader balks. Is the verbal riot in the dialogue of the women just sound and fury camouflaging stereotype...
Andryusha worked on his memoirs in Gorky, periodically rewriting sections. Not because of the author's severity or the grumblings of his first reader, first editor and first typist (all of them me) -- no! Because of another's will and another's hand. Sections kept vanishing. Once from the apartment in Moscow; once stolen along with his bag at the dental clinic in Gorky; once from our parked car, which had been broken into, with Andrei knocked out by some drug. Each time he rewrote his book. Each time there was something new -- sometimes better written, sometimes not, sometimes...
...dozen fresh crucial issues. Poems imply this same incompleteness. Unlike prose, the place that a poem aims and arrives at is less important to the success of the poem than the ideas and images it uses to make the journey. By those ideas and images the poet holds the reader to the process, by which he suggests that the poem pauses more than finishes and that the end is somewhere in the middle...
Interests: Save at least one line for alist in series of avocational interests such as,"Reading, playing guitar, running, and choralsinging." Even a brief list rounds out yourpresentation and may establish an initial bond ofcommon interest with the reader...